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Re: Jumbo frame Question


From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:58:25 +0100 (CET)

On Fri, 26 Nov 2010, Randy Bush wrote:

the reason ieee has not allowed upping of the frame size is that the crc is at the prudent limits at 1500. yes, we do another check above the frame (uh, well, udp4 may not), but the ether spec can not count on that.

<http://staff.psc.edu/mathis/MTU/arguments.html#crc> seems to disagree?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike () swm pp se


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